Insect-exterminator.



No. 679,848. Patented Aug. s, i901. J. K. JessuP.

INSECT EXTERMINATUR.

(Application led Anl'. 29, 1901.! (No Model.)

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I. iQUI" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.TOI-IN KEIJSEY JESSUP, OF MOUN D CITY, KANSAS, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO O. M. WEST, OF SAME PLACE.

INS ECT-EXTERMINATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 679,848, dated August 6, 1901.

Application filed April 29, 1901l Serial No. 58,011. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, JOHN KELSEY JEssUP, a citizen of the United States, residingat Mound City, in the county of Linn and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Insect-Exterminators; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to insect-exterminators.

`The object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which shall be siniple of construction, durable in use, and comparatively inexpensive of production and which may be hung in bushes, trees, or shrubbery or be supported from a receptacle containing a poisonous liquid. In the former event the extermination of the insects will be due to their passing through the dame, while in the latter event the extermination is due to their passing through the flames and of their being attracted to the flames and defiected downwardly into the receptacle containing the poisonous liquid.

With this and other objects in View the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a side view of my improved insect-exterminator. Fig. 2v is a top plan view, and Fig, 3 is a side elevation of a modified form of torch.

In the drawings, 1 denotes the frame of the exterminator, which consists of a lower ring 2 and an upper ring 3, connected together by wire posts 4. 5 denotes radially-extending reflector-win gs mounted upon said wire posts and each consisting of a brightly-polished piece of metal slit transversely a distance from its outer edge and having the members a and b curved in opposite directions. The member a. of the reflector-wing projects in one direction, while the member b of the reector-win g projects in the opposite direction. The lower ends of these reflectors are connected together by lU-shaped cross-bars 6, one of which has a kink 7 to receive the other, and thereby interlock against movement. These cross-bars serve to steady or brace the reflector-wings and at the same time to form a seat for the torch 7', having a central wicktube, as shown in Figs. l and 2, or having radiallyextending tubes, as shown in Fig. 3. Each pair of the reflector-wings have their upper ends connected together by angular 6o bars 8, which are grooved to receive the upper edges of said reflector-wings and brace them at these points.

10 denotes a bail hinged to the upper ring of the frame and provided with ahook ll, by

means of which the device may be hung in position.

As thus described the device may be hung in trees, bushes, or shrubbery in general. As the insects are attracted by the reiiected light 7o from the torch they will be drawn to the flame and be destroyed by coming in contact therewith. If the insects fly in the general direction indicated by the arrow w, they will be attracted by the lower members of the re 75 Hector-Wings, and if they fly in the general direction of the arrow a; they will be attracted by the upper members of the reflector-wings, and when they fiy directly toward the light or radially they will be attracted by the reflected 8o light from the inner ends or edges of the reflector-wings, which ends or edges converge from their outer ends inwardly, and passing through the flame of the torch will be destroyed. 8 5

If desired, I may use in connection with the above-described structure a pan or receptacle the outer edges of which extend beyond the outer edges of the reflector-wings. Any suitable means may be employed for con- 9o necting the lower ring of the frame with the pan or receptacle-as, for instance, by providing the rim of the pan or receptacle with hooks l5 and passing through these hooks and holes formed in the lower ring of the frame a rod 16, thus detachably connecting the parts. This pan or receptacle is designed to contain a poisonous liquid, so that even should the insects fail to be exterminated by coming into contact with the flame they will foo n secured to said posts, the lower ends of the when suddenly striking the reector-Wings be deflected into the pan containing the liquid and be exterminated.l l

While I have shown two dierent forms of illuminating devices, I would have it 4distinctly understood that I contemplate as falling within the scope `ol the invention, and I may use, any form of illuminating agent that I may desire.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, mode of operation, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood Without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, andA details of construction may be made within the scope of the invention without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of ,the advantages thereof.

, Having-thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l'. In an insect-exterininator, the combinay 2. In an insect-exterminator, the com'bin'ation with a frame, consisting of upper .and

lower rings and posts connecting them to-k gether, of radially-projecting reflector-wings `a torch, a pan or receptacle, hooks secured to the pan or receptacle, and rods passed through the said frame and engaged with. said hooks for releasably connecting the pan to the exterminator, substantially as set forth.

4:. In an i'nsect-exterminator, the combination withV a frame, of radially-disposed wings having members a and b, the members "a curved in one direction, and the members b `curved in the opposite direction, and a torch,

substantiallyas set forth.

5. In an insect-exterminator, the combina tion with a frame, of radially-disposed reflectors, U-shaped cross-bars connecting the lower ends of said reflectors and interlocked at their point of intersection, and a torch gseated upon the ,U-shaped cross=bars, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in. presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN' KLSEY JEssUPf Witnesses:

`SAMUEL J. COLEMAN,

JOHN L. GovE. 

